[AusNOG] Business Router

[Jason Leschnik]

+1 on pfSense

It's worth a try even if you throw some NICs on a decent spare machine
cut site across on a weekend and then later as a full production run.
If you have no luck with this i would then recommend looking at the
Juniper kit. At the worst your looking at the cost of a few NICs and a
bit of your time.

Goodluck =D

jl.

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Gary Buckmaster
<gary.buckmaster at digitalpacific.com.au> wrote:
> +1 on the pfSense suggestion
>
> Disclosure: I worked with the pfSense project for several years and I
> know those guys very well.
>
> It's a FreeBSD based distribution and rolls a lot of really useful
> functionality into a easy-to-use interface.  Keep in mind, however, that
> its still software running on a general purpose CPU; the ability to
> forward lots of packets becomes an issue as you scale upwards and the
> resources you need to support some of the functions means you may need a
> fairly powerful machine (or machines for a CARP cluster).
>
> Its still worth a look, especially if you're comparing the SRX devices
> and the pfSense commercial support guys are exceptionally good.
>
> Best,
>
> Gary
>
> On 5/17/2012 11:00 PM, Jake Anderson wrote:
>> Have you looked at things like pfsense?
>> more than one fortune 500 is using it.
>> http://www.pfsense.org/
>>
>> multi-wan can be a little fiddly to setup but it'll turn any machine you
>> have laying about the place into a firewall with all the bells and
>> whistles.
>> And you can set them up with CARP for active failover etc all for the
>> low low price of free ;->.
>> (assuming (like your boss presumably does) your time has a value of 0,
>> but then you probably need to learn whatever other system you get anyway)
>>
>> Hit me up if you would like a hand with it.
>>
>>
>> On 17/05/12 11:27, Jason Firmino wrote:
>>> Hey noggers,
>>>
>>> I'm working in a company that has just reached 600 users in our
>>> network infrastructure. We are having some issues with our router
>>> (Draytek - Vigor 3200 Series). He's not handling well the bandwidth of
>>> the 3 x 10Mb links we have, and we are scheduled for a 100Mb link next
>>> week.
>>>
>>> However the problem is that the we are short on funds for IT.
>>>
>>> So, with that, what kind of router do you noggers recommend for a
>>> medium company with 600 users that can support up to 5 links delivered
>>> trough ethernet.
>>>
>>> Cheers to all,
>>
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